HOULLETIA BROCKLEHURSTIANA. 
[PLATE 337.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Sub-terrestrial. | Pseudobulbs conical, furrowed, about three inches high, bearing 
a single petiolate leaf, which is broadly-lanceolate, much plaited, upwards of a foot 
long, and light green. Scape produced from the side of the ovate-pseudobulb, 
longer than the leaf, erect, bearing a raceme of from eight to twelve nodding flowers, 
the flowers being highly coloured, delicately fragrant, and from three to four inches 
across. Sepals and petals nearly equal, oblong-obtuse and spreading, ground colour 
orange-brown, with dark purplish brown spots; Jip shorter than the perianth, yellow 
spotted with dark brown, pointed at the middle, purple towards the apex, and 
bearing two short horns which point towards the column. Colwmn stout, falcate. 
HovuLtetIA Brockienurstiana, Lindley, Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 43; Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4072; Pescatorea, t. 36; Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, ix., t. 49; 
Gartenflora, t. 229; Revue Horticole, p. 492; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 
6 ed., p. 342. 
Maxitiarta Brockienurstiana, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1841, misc. 27. 
MAXILLARIA S?raPELL@FLora, Brongniart, Hortic. inio. 
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Tt affords us much pleasure in heing able to bring before our subscribers the - 
portrait of this very beautiful and curious old Orchid, which appears to have been 
introduced to cultivation about the year 1839. It is this species upon which the 
_genus was established by Brongniart, and flowered first in this country with the late 
Thomas Brocklehurst, Esq., of Macclesfield, in the year 1841, and in whose honour 
it was named by Dr. Lindley. It flowered again in the Kew collection in 1843, 
but, notwithstanding its beauty, it has never become a popular Orchid in this 
country. The genus is nearly allied to Stanhopea, but differs principally in its lip, 
which is jointed in the middle, bearing two horn-like processes on its lower half, 
which are directed towards the column. Various other species are now in cultivation, 
for the names and descriptions of which we must refer our readers to the Orchid- 
Grower's Manual, page 342, where descriptions of all the most desirable kinds are 
to be found. Our drawing was taken from a plant in the possession of H. 
Grose Smith, Esq., of the Priory, St. Helen’s, Ryde, Isle of Wight, in whose 
well-grown collection it flowered under the care of Mr. Earle, the gardener. 
Houlletia Brocklehurstiana is a handsome and showy species, growing to 
upwards of two feet in height, and has a conical furrowed pseudobulb, which bears 
a single broadly lanceolate light green leaf. The flower spike proceeds from the 
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